Nicole Marshall is the lead fourth-grade teacher at Ray Miller Elementary School. For the past three years, Mrs. Marshall’s classroom has been the primary site for Truman’s Aequora program through the Paideia Institute. Mrs. Marshall has invited Truman’s Classics students into her classroom to teach Latin and literacy skills to…
Courtney Evans has a PhD in Classics, is a Resident Assistant Professor at Creighton University, and has strongly supported the department through ESP events and teaching upper-level courses to majors and non-majors alike. …
Dr. David Oosterhuis is the chair of the Classical Civilizations Department at Gonzaga University, and will be taking over as advisor for the Theta Xi chapter of Eta Sigma Phi next year. He has been at Gonzaga University for ten years and has been instrumental in growing the program, and…
Dr. Robert Matera received his Bachelors degree magna cum laude from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Southern California with a dissertation on Propertius. He is an outstanding teacher in Latin and Classics who is much loved by his students here at Maryland and who…
According to a professor of Latin at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, the Greek Minister of Education is considering eliminating Latin from the high-school curriculum. In hopes of saving Latin from being eliminated, it has been suggested that a letter writing campaign might help! Please talk to your Eta Sigma…
We are honoring tonight Professor Ruth Scodel, the D. R. Shackleton-Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan, a well-known specialist in Greek literature among Classicists, with research interests from Homer to Greek tragedy and beyond. Professor Scodel was educated as an undergraduate at the University…
Born in Rhode Island and raised in Florida, Michele Valerie Ronnick did not discover Latin until her senior year at Sarasota Senior High School, when the French teacher retired and Dr. Ronnick’s brother persuaded his sister to replace the empty spot in her schedule with Latin. Her fate was sealed,…
Christopher Comer and Nick Smerker Christopher Comer, Professor of Neuroscience and Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, was awarded honorary membership in Eta Sigma Phi for his tireless advocacy of the humanities at the University of Montana. He studied Latin in the earlier stages of his higher education.…
Provost Timothy O’Rourke Provost O’Rourke has proved unfailingly supportive of Classics at Virginia Wesleyan University, attending initiations of new members and special departmental speakers.…
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